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That’s what I felt like when ai joined a company that issued me a macbook for the first time. There’s nothing quite like demonstrating your code to somebody an
by onionisafruit 6y ago
That’s what I felt like when ai joined a company that issued me a macbook for the first time. There’s nothing quite like demonstrating your code to somebody and having the conversation turn into a tutorial on cmd vs ctrl keys. It was probably only a week or two before I had it mostly worked out, but the imposter syndrome was pretty bad for a while. I can imagine falling into the same trap as the fellow in your story if I had trouble with the code too. At some point you start thinking that anything you say will out you so you just shut up and hope to delay the inevitable.
- agustif 6y agoBeen the same for me using a Windows PC on work having a Mac home. having different keymappings in different machines is hard
- RulerOf 6y agoI was okay when I had the proper keyboard in front of me, but I still stumble with reflexively using the correct keys for shortcuts when I'm remote controlling one from the other. I've found it very difficult to use Ctrl+C to copy from Windows and then Cmd+V to paste on Mac OS without pretty frequently using the wrong modifier key.
- agustif 6y agoAlso, Hyper.app has ctrl+shift+v/c for copy paste, Git-ui has some weird shit like alt-shift-fn-c/v too LOL...
- CM30 6y agoSame here. Started a company where employees had Macbooks to work on, and was all kinds of lost for the first few weeks because of it. Then again, that's still a problem even now, since switching between a PC and Mac on a fairly regular basis still leaves me a tad confused about the shortcuts and key bindings.
- noir_lord 6y agoHappened to me at the start of the year, I chose macbook because reviews on 16" keyboard said not horrible and the rest of the team where already on it (and I had juniors to support). I resolved from day one to not fight the machine into behaving like Fedora instead learning the actual shortcuts (and I installed Rectangle). It took about a week before I was comfortable and a lot of that was remapping my IDE since I have extensive altered keybindings and shortcut keywords for that on linux. Once I accept it was just a unix with a different DE it wasn't so bad, messes me up more the other way I keep hitting alt+C etc on linux now.
- mercer 6y agoThis guy truly just didn't know about keyboard shortcuts in general!